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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
6
Elementary school news urges daily safety lessons at school to reduce more than 40,000 traffic deaths and other accidents in home fires play and work. It argues safety habits and attitudes form early and can prevent accidents.
The article argues safety should be integrated into daily activities not as a burden. It outlines teaching about dangers from bicycles to fire and electricity, and stresses safe behavior on the way to school and in play. It emphasizes live safety over memorized rules and seeks safer, more enjoyable adventures for youth.
Elementary teachers motor to Mrs Strites home in Sorrento on September 26 for an afternoon swim and dinner. They played games after roast chicken with trimmings. Kiwanis Club invited teachers to a luncheon on October 2 where Miss Doris Camp spoke about the school and unit singing followed.
A school tradition features a thank you song to the Kiwanis when teachers visit for a luncheon. Pupils enjoy an extra half hour and weekly playtime supervised by Kiwanis wives who assist and oversee the playground during noon.
Happy to have Pateyn Eichells back. Six elementary grades visited the Auditorium last Friday and sang safety songs from Sing for Books. The songs, twelve in total, were set to familiar tunes and funded by American Fire and Casualty Company of Orlando via French as a representative.
Fifth grade celebrates earning its first dollar day attendance prize at the P T meeting last Tuesday night. Names listed include Patty Claflin Betty Jo McDonald Frances Smith Robert Hall and L G Simpson Jr.
Fourth grade recounts an imaginative Africa trip visiting Bombo land along the Congo River. Students describe making a hut model with Eddy Harding and crafting mats and utensils while noting fire prevention and spellings from a cheerful class report.
Second grade pupils and their teacher celebrated a high PTA showing on Tuesday October 7 with 92 percent voting in favor. The fourth week spelling perfect scores went to Patsy Dean and Birdie Mae Durham and several students earned perfect spelling scores.
The first grade named two goldfish Orange-Top and Spottie and hopes they survive the heat. Teachers Mrs. Howard Wetz and Mrs. D. P. Hopkins visited the class. The county nurse Mrs. Elizabeth Carmody administered an elementary eye test and the group planted beans.
William G DeVane M D of Groveland celebrated his 53rd birthday. He grew up in Adel Georgia and attended public schools there. A University of Georgia graduate who earned his first dollar picking cotton he came to Florida and Lake County in 1908. He enjoys hiking roses waffles and horseback riding.
Natives of the table Life Assurance Society, Leslie Davis Burdine earned his first dollar in boyhood. He moved to Florida in 1921 and Lake County in 1922. He serves as Leesburg Kiwanis secretary and was president of the Junior High School PTA. He is a Lake County Chamber of Commerce director and this year its vice-president. He is public spirited and efficient.
Kenneth Loucks of Leesburg born October 15, 1897 in Westfield Pennsylvania. He earned a B S at the University of Rochester and an M S at the University of Florida. He works with the Florida Experiment Station researching grapes at the Leesburg Station. He came to Florida in 1922 and to Lake County in 1931. His hobbies include fishing and ice cream. he is a past president of the Senior P T A Leesburg.
Leesburg mayor Herbert L. Butler turns 36 on October 22 born 1905 in Bainbridge Georgia. His career spans Jacksonville Leesburg Florida University of Florida Vanderbilt automobile dealer and Kiwanis member.
Notice announces fictitious name registrations for Sadler & Simpson and Burton's One Stop Service Station in Mount Dora with owner details and addresses. It also covers Mount Dora School District No. 16 biennial election on November 4, 1941, listing appointed trustees and the district boundaries and tax millage questions. It includes notices to creditors for the estate of Anna M. Beach in Lake County with eight months for claims.
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